Private landlords escaped another tax hammering in Chancellor Phillip Hammond’s Autumn Budget 2017. After years of misery, landlords have little to fear – or cheer – from his 62-minute speech to MPs in the House of Commons. Hammond’s predecessor George Osborne has...

The tax man is continuing to wage a financial war against landlords as the countdown to self-assessment filing day winds down. The HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) deadline for filing returns and paying tax for the year to April 5, 2016 is January 31. Although this seems...